According to this wiki page I should be able to specify a button for exiting emulators on recalbox. I followed the directions and used putty for Windows and logged in as root. I copied the text on this page:

https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Enable-Gpio-button-to-close-emulator-with-only-one-button-press

However after pasting and entering the text, I get no prompt or script that allows me to specify which button I want to use. After pressing enter I get this message:

/recalbox/share/sys 100% [=========>] 635 --.-KB/s in 0s
Starting button

Then it just shows the command prompt (#).

I'm guessing the link in the text is no longer valid?

Any help?

I just realized that this might be in the wrong forum.

I’m not sure where to post this but I was just curious, now that pi has released a 64bit version of the pi4, how does that affect updates to recalbox (or emulation on the pi in general)? With its release there will also be a 64bit OS along with it, is porting trivial or is it like starting from scratch?

Lastly, what is the overall plan/strategy going forward for supporting 32bit and 64bit pi’s?

Thanks

@djmatrix-hu3

There are a lot of fake SanDisk cards out there. Have tried testing the cards with a counterfeit program?

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/

@rustymg

Thanks. Thats really unfortunate. I wonder why they did that.

First off let me say that I already have multiple pi’s running recalbox and this is just for fun.

I got a free Pandora’s box, which one is hard to say but the main board has a sticker on it that says pandora 30s rrtv 32#5000.

Anyway, the software looks like it’s running retropie and from research, it’s possibly running some android OS underneath.

So the question is, can this board run recalbox instead? If so, does anyone have a write up or video?

Ps mods if this isn’t the right forum can you move it to the correct forum please? Thanks

@ivwshane

I just tried with unzipped files and the other emulators for n64 now play the roms. While their emulation is more accurate they aren’t playable.

@countertop

I’m having similar issues except I’m using a pi3. The only emulator I can get working is libretro parallel.
My speeds are decent if I set the n64 video mode in the config to CEA 1 HDMI.

For example mk 4 is totally playable except for some missing layers (like the health and timer bar).

I haven’t tried unzipping the rom files yet though.

I’m getting slow performance on pi4 that’s hooked up to a 4k tv. I know I need to edit the config file to force it into 1080p mode but I cannot find where the line is or what I need to change it to. I tried searching the wiki (which is starting to look really good btw) but the only thing in English I could find was for odroid.

Can someone tell me what and where I need to change the setting?

@rustymg

Thanks. Thats really unfortunate. I wonder why they did that.

On older versions of recalbox while browsing screenshots I could go to options and delete the file, now I no longer see that option. Can they be deleted from the front end or do I now have to access the share and delete that way or from within the game I played?

@scavy said in Copying files to an external disk via network?:

@ivwshane hello
you have to format your SSD disk in exfat format. Plug it to your Pi, load Recalbox and choose your SSD drive (give it a name) in the menu.
RCB will reboot and create all required folders on your SSD.

So I did that and recalbox found it with no issues but the issue remained.

I decided to check the drive one more time and I discovered that the file system somehow duplicated itself.

This is what my drive had on it for example:

Share—>system name—>roms

But it also had a roms folder as well and that looked like this:

Share—>roms—>system name—>roms

My files were all in the first set except for one system. After I moved the files all to share—>roms—>system name, the game list was finally updated correctly.

I’m not sure what happened to cause the issue but it may have been caused by me originally formatting the drive without a drive letter and then after I had installed it I removed it and hooked it up back to my computer but this time I assigned a drive letter to it. I then reinstalled it in the pi and selected the newly named drive.

Easy enough fix thankfully.

Any help? Searching leads to wiki links that are outdated and I can’t find anything on github.

@ivwshane

It looks like it wasn't working because I didn't format it. A quick format to ext in Windows allowed recalbox to do its thing.

However...

I can not get the gamelists to update correctly. The roms I installed via the network show up but the roms I loaded while the disc was connected to the computer do not. What's weird is that I can see the games via the recalbox share.

So the games are on the external disc but recalbox isn't seeing them. Using the update gamelists in UI doesn't appear to do anything.

I'll post this question here because the wiki doesn't have any info on this yet, although I'm sure I'll find the answer in a minute.

I have a pi4 with an SD card and and external ssd drive. I'm using the nespi case which means that the ssd is connected via sata to USB.
The drive is brand new and has never been formatted. My pi is set to anyexternal.

Did I need to format the drive first before using it with recalbox?

Once its connected to the pi can I access it via a network connection through Windows?

I can already access the pi's ssd card via network share but the external drive does not show up.

What am I missing?

https://recalbox.gitbook.io/documentation/basic-manual/file-management/share-folder